COMMUNITY GROUPS:
THE FAMILY TABLE OF THE ORCHARD
LIFE IS MEANT
TO BE SHARED
You weren’t made to follow Jesus alone.
God forms His people through others who know us, walk with us, encourage us, speak truth in love, and help us become more like Jesus.
We want Community Groups to become the family table of The Orchard. We want them to become a place where people move beyond simply attending church together and begin sharing life together.
Most of our groups meet in homes two or three times each month, but the goal is bigger than another meeting on the calendar. Community Groups create space for ordinary relationships to grow into a shared life of following Jesus around the table, throughout the week, and through every season of life.
God forms His people through others who know us, walk with us, encourage us, speak truth in love, and help us become more like Jesus.
We want Community Groups to become the family table of The Orchard. We want them to become a place where people move beyond simply attending church together and begin sharing life together.
Most of our groups meet in homes two or three times each month, but the goal is bigger than another meeting on the calendar. Community Groups create space for ordinary relationships to grow into a shared life of following Jesus around the table, throughout the week, and through every season of life.
COME TO THE TABLE
At a family table, you aren’t a customer. You belong and you have something to contribute.
You bring your joys and burdens, your questions and gifts, your faith and your struggles. You receive the grace God gives through others, and you learn to share the grace He has given you.
Over time, these ordinary relationships become one of the primary places God forms us into the people He intends us to become.
Community Groups share life through four ordinary practices:
You bring your joys and burdens, your questions and gifts, your faith and your struggles. You receive the grace God gives through others, and you learn to share the grace He has given you.
Over time, these ordinary relationships become one of the primary places God forms us into the people He intends us to become.
Community Groups share life through four ordinary practices:
- Hospitality: We make room for people.
- Fellowship: We share real life with one another.
- Scripture: We listen to God together and respond.
- Prayer: We depend on God together.
A PLACE TO BE KNOWN AND HELP OTHERS GROW
Around the table, we learn to:
Every person has a part to play. God uses the presence, encouragement, generosity, gifts, and faithfulness of His people to build His church and form us together into the likeness of Christ.
- Be genuinely known and know others
- Share the joys and burdens of everyday life
- Speak the truth in love
- Apply God’s Word together
- Pray and be prayed for
- Give and receive practical care
- Use our gifts to strengthen one another
- Welcome others into life with Jesus
- Help one another grow toward maturity in Christ
Every person has a part to play. God uses the presence, encouragement, generosity, gifts, and faithfulness of His people to build His church and form us together into the likeness of Christ.